Produced by WebRover, Peter Vachuska and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net THE PANGERMAN PLOT UNMASKED THE PANGERMAN PLOT UNMASKED BERLIN’S FORMIDABLE PEACE-TRAP OF “THE DRAWN WAR” BY ANDRÉ CHÉRADAME WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY THE EARL OF CROMER, O.M. WITH MAPS NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS 1917 COPYRIGHT, 1916, BY CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS Published January, 1917 _All Rights Reserved_ [Illustration] PUBLISHER’S NOTE As will be understood from the author’s preface, M. Chéradame’s book was published in Paris in the summer of this year, before the important occurrences in the Balkans accompanying and following Roumania’s entrance into the war. In issuing this translation no consideration of these events has been added; but their bearing on M. Chéradame’s forecast will be noted by the reader. The maps have been reproduced direct from the French edition, without translating the names into English, as they answer their purpose perfectly well in their present form. TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE INTRODUCTION BY LORD CROMER xiii AUTHOR’S PREFACE xix PROLOGUE PANGERMAN AND WILLIAM II. 1 I. The Pangerman Doctrine, p. 1.—II. The Kaiser as originator of the Pangerman plan, p. 5. CHAPTER I THE PANGERMAN PLAN 11 I. The Pangerman plan of 1911, p. 11.—II. The stages by which it has been effected, p. 16.—III. Why it has been ignored, p. 19. CHAPTER II THE CAUSES OF THE WAR 26 I. Why the Treaty of Bukarest suddenly raised a formidable obstacle to the Pangerman plan, p. 26.—II. How it was that the internal state of Austria-Hungary drove Germany to let loose the dogs of war, p. 31.—III. General view of the causes of the war, p. 37. CHAPTER III HOW FAR THE PANGERMAN PLAN WAS CARRIED OUT AT THE BEGINNING OF 1916 45